What could my g-g-g-g-grandfather have been?? Photo attached

[PrueM]

More thoughts....do you think the fact that he has a ring on his little finger and one on his ring finger on the left hand has any significance?

Prue

[Nessie]

Could be someone else is researching your family http://www.bakery.co.uk/sandd/sdname12.htm#sni

Brought it to your attention because it seems the names of Francis Ingrams children include a Samuel George and William.

[Nessie]

GenesReunited have quite a few entries for George Ingram from 1785 to the early 1800s, saying Dorset, Somerset and Bath. Have you checked them? may be a clue there for you.

[PrueM]

Great Nessie, thanks!  I will definitely follow that up, could be a connection there - who knows?  The names are familiar, for sure.
Prue

[PrueM]

Thanks also for the GenesReunited alert - I haven't been on that site for a while now, and in looking at the George Ingrams I see there are a couple there that I haven't check out, so thank you again!   
Prue

[Nessie]

Dog walk time again, will see if any more ideas come to mind

[Arranroots]

Hi Prue

Fascinating thread!

don't know that there would be much heavy industry in Dorset at the time, but you could try this site for his occupation:

http://www.historicaldirectories.org/

kind regards, Arranroots 

[percy]

Hi Prue,

I have just come across this thread.

Looking at your picture, it seems to me EITHER, that it cannot be of the man you think it is OR, that your 1780's date is not correct.

Assuming the man in the picture to be between 40 and 50 years of age, then, judging by his costume, hair, clean-shaven upper lip, and beard ---- my guess is that the earliest he was born was about 1815 to 1820.

He does give the impression of being a clergyman.    Too emaciated to have been an industrialist or businessman of the period : and too other-worldly looking to be a lawyer.

Early photographs almost as a rule feature one or more books -- intended to show that the subject was literate.     HOWEVER !  Engravings , particularly portrait engravings  mounted in books, did not do so for the obvious reason that the subject invariably was literate.

In your instance, I think the inclusion of the book indicates a connection between the man and the book --- or books in general.    An Author, Poet, or Clergyman perhaps ?

PERCY

[Jane Eden]

Hi Prue

Where did he live? When did he die?

Jane